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[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, just go with Debian Stable (bookworm) with KDE or Linux Mint. It is pretty stable and a windows like experience.

I have not tried VR on it tho, so can't speak to that.

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 7 points 11 months ago

+1 for mint. It was my first distro and it made me love Linux.

[–] c10l@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I second Debian. Stable is excellent.

Testing has newer packages and is generally almost as stable.

I published my Debian gaming setup a few days ago. Haven’t tried VR on it either as I don’t have a headset, but I assume it works.

https://lemmy.world/post/9543661

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but Debian stable is a terrible recommendation! They don't even ship bugfix releases of KDE Plasma... It's stuck with a months old version that has lots of known and long fixed bugs in it

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Fair point, but for someone who doesn't like tinkering and is afraid to make the jump to Linux, I still stand by the suggestion.

Different people value different things and that's okay.